{"id":10289,"date":"2025-08-26T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/?page_id=10289"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:35:33","slug":"mission-and-goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/academics\/b-s-nutrition\/nutrition-science-track\/mission-and-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading entry-title\">B.S. in Nutrition &#8211; Nutrition Science Track<\/h1>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"BSN Nutrition Science\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-bsn-nutrition-science\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-10416\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-10416\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/academics\/b-s-nutrition\/nutrition-science-track\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-10420\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-10420\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/academics\/b-s-nutrition\/nutrition-science-track\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-10419\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-10419\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/academics\/b-s-nutrition\/nutrition-science-track\/mission-and-goals\/\">Mission and Goals<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission and Goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission of the B.S. in Nutrition program is to provide evidence-based knowledge and experiential opportunities to prepare students to pursue pre-health professional degrees, graduate studies, and careers in public health, government, or the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goal #1<\/strong>: Graduates will be well prepared to apply nutritional science to improve wellness at the individual and community levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learning Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate scientific literature to make ethical, evidence-based practice decisions about nutrition and healthcare.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create public and community programs in nutrition using knowledge of nutrition and human health.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles to decisions related to food and food systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goal #2<\/strong>: Graduates will be well prepared through rigorous scientific training as researchers in nutrition and health for post-graduate opportunities including completion of a graduate program and\/or entering the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learning Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Demonstrate understanding of nutritional science at a biochemical level.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demonstrate mastery of nutritional science concepts orally and in writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.S. in Nutrition &#8211; Nutrition Science Track Mission and Goals The mission of the B.S. in Nutrition program is to provide evidence-based knowledge and experiential opportunities to prepare students to pursue pre-health professional degrees, graduate studies, and careers in public health, government, or the community. Goals Goal #1: Graduates will be well prepared to apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"parent":10278,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10289\/revisions\/10426"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}